Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
The Ryze Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ryze sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nunu & Willump helps Ryze perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze plays on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Nunu & Willump does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nunu & Willump. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Ryze plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Ryze during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Ryze that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a terrible companion for Ryze. By being on the same team as Ryze, he decreases their win rate by -4.8% to 44.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Ryze and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Ryze. That means Ryze players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nunu & Willump comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Ryze and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be giving your side a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ryze in order to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Ryze and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nunu & Willump than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ryze boasted an average win rate of 44.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Ryze players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Ryze and Nunu & Willump pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.2% winrate overall.
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